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John Sutton

4 papers in the library · 288 citations · publishing 2011-2026

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Being Where? Putting Memory, Technology, and Wayfinding Together Again

Review of Philosophy and Psychology March 28, 2026 Mcarthur Mingon, Alexander James Gillett, John Sutton

Abstract Although wayfinding is a central domain for 4E research, much work on spatial cognition and navigation still operates within an internalist framework. This is particularly damaging in evaluating the cognitive impact of technologies like Global Positioning Systems (GPS), where negative assessments about ‘de-skilling’ and the digital disruption of biocognitive spatial memory capacities...

Plans and Scattered Notions in Dream Reports, Science, and History

February 10, 2026 John Sutton

Abstract Working outwards from one dream report in the Threshold Worlds database, this chapter examines three aspects of permeability or ‘cognitive transit’ in dream experience, relating to perspective, planning, and precision. Reports of seeing oneself in the dreamed scene are common, and don’t require us to postulate an extra ‘self’. A plan formulated in the dream escapes, finding a life of...

Self‐Representation and Perspectives in Dreams

Philosophy Compass November 1, 2013 Melanie G. Rosen, John Sutton 32 citations

Abstract Integrative and naturalistic philosophy of mind can both learn from and contribute to the contemporary cognitive sciences of dreaming. Two related phenomena concerning self‐representation in dreams demonstrate the need to bring disparate fields together. In most dreams, the protagonist or dream self who experiences and actively participates in dream events is or represents the dreamer:...